Strap for overshoes



To all whom it may concern:

UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS F. BYRNES, or EMPo'RIA, KANSAS.

'STRAP FOR OVERSHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 282,954, dated August 14, -1883'.'

' Applicationfiled April 30,18B\3. (No model.)

Be it known that I,'THOMAS F. BYRNES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Eur poria, in the county of Lyon and State of Kan sas, have invented a new and useful Improve ment in Straps for Overshoes, of which the following is a specification.

Inthe accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 shows my Fig. 2 is adetail View of the strap detached. Fig. 3 is also a detail View of the strap, showing the manner of attaching the button-hole piece.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the drawings.

In said drawings, A represents an ordinary overshoe, and B B the strap or flat band em ployed in connection with the overshoe for the purpose of retaining it oh thefoot. To this strap my invention relates. As heretofore made, these retaining straps or bands, when attached at the heel of a shoe and passing around the ankle in front, have been made in one straight piece. It is desirable, however, that they be made in L shape, with the button-hole or other means of securing itto the shoe located at the angle, in order that the strap may conform, when in use, to the shape of the parts it encircles; and hence I make the strap in two parts, B B, and secure them to a separate button-hole and junction piece, 0, the union being effected by stitching or cementing. In this manner the strap is not weakened by the cutting of the button-hole, as it would be if there were no button-hole piece, and I am enabled to use scrap-pieces for the parts B and B. The shorter part, B, carries the buckle D, and the longer piece, B, is passed around the ankle. The strap is attached to the shoe by being buttoned upon the, button E, which is secured to the heel of the overshoe.

The button-hole piece 0, I prefer to make of u a doubled piece of leather, and this construction is illustrated in Fig. 3, where the parts are shown ready for the folding down of the piece 0 upon the limbs of the strap, which are. inclosed between the thicknesses of thebutton-hole piece.

I claim- The combination, with an overshoe, of the buckled L-shaped flat retainingstrap, composed of the two parts B B, and a uniting button-hole piece, 0, at the angle, substantially as specified.

THOMAS F. BYBNES.

WVitnesses:

M. MALONEY, A. R. BANCROFT. 

